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Chicago examiner thursday thursday Chicago april 18 1918 i vol xvi no 101 a m râ‚¬kistered tjtjtntti rnii-^v nrvrro ix Chicago ei^sbwhbrh l u stpatrat offioe jrkice two ctiatb and suburbs three cents big cities lag loan menaced says u s sales of 952,923,250 should i be billion average in nation | is 31 per cent speed urged | chicago's standing slightly over third of quota treasury ad rnitsdisappointmentin showing washington april 17 â€” for the first time since the open ing of the third liberty loan campaign disappointment in the prog ress made was manifested to-night at the treasury department unless this average is maintained tfie loan ivill be short 160,000,000 of ho j3,m>0,000,000 asked for bt sec retary mcadoo it was stated here to-nlghi by treasury officials this statement was authorized by uie treasury department sales since the first days of the campaign when they started with a rush frankly are not up to ex pectations there is a feeling of lisappointment particularly in the mrge cities the dountry districts are doing better than during the previous campaigns but the gains that they ne making are not of sufficient size to offset the lack of sales in hc larger communities ourly effort all over nation needed the need for constant steady driving by sales committees ev â€¢!â– >â– day throughout the remainder of the campaign is plain only persistent daily and hourly effort will restore the campaign to the rate of speed which it had acquired a week ago possibly under the im petus of the start of the honor flag race list by districts shows Chicago second district subscriptions and the per centages of quotas obtained by each are wisconsin under way to beat record wisconsin is just beginning its in tensive campaign throughout t!i state where per capita subscriptions ave been running somewhat smaller than the second loan reports from all over the country now buyers are taking the bonds in small quantities and with the inten sion of holding them st louis still leads the nation in the race for percentage of subscrip tions obtained but minneapolis with only two working days to its credit is coming strong cardinal gibbons to-day indorsed the liberty loan campaign as follows i beg to say that i am deeply interested in the placing of the â€¢ oming issue of th liberty loan and the best evidence of my zeal for its great success is the fact that i purpose subscribing largely o it for the catholic university president james university of illi nois telegraphed that the faculty students ani employes of his school ad already passed the quota as signed to it the cleveland federal reserve ais cyclops safe commander's wife asserts norfoi>k va april 17 that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the naval collier cyclops would be cleared up within the next twenty-four hours was the statement made in a newspaper office here to-night by mrs g w worley wife of lieut commander worley in command of the vessel the collier is safe in a south american port she is reported to have said adding an official statement would be made shortly bearing her out families of men aboard the cy clops have been told not to worry by mrs worley it is said washington april 17 mrs worley's reported norfolk state ments have not been borne out by any dispatches received at the navy department officials here said to-night utpatel speech arouses u s master-ln-chancery's address to lutheran patriotic league to be investigated henry tttpatel master in chancery of the superior court and former alderman will be summoned to the office of chief investigator hinton o clabaugh of the department of justice this morning secret service agent3 stated last night utpatel alluding to the war while speaking at a patriotic rally of the cook county branch of the american lutheran patriotic league in the council of defense building 120 w adams st is alleged to have said that for a while it seemed that the united states had bitten off more than it could chew the remark capped an otherwise patriotic talk by utpatel aided red cross mr utpatel was not on the pro gram stated w e brockschmidt chairman he sent a note up to me asking permission to address the meeting he has been an ardent worker in the red cross and liberty loan cam paigns conducted by the league and : his remark was entirely unexpected one of the objects of this league is to set people on the right path utpatel had left the meeting when secret service operatives arrived to serve the subpoena the meeting with an attendance of 300 voiced the unmistakable loy alty of the league buy 520.000 in bonds a letter expressing the regret of governor lowden at alleged reflec tions cast by harry lauder on the german lutherans was read more than 700 persons attended a patriotic meeting at the evangelical lutheran st luke's church belmont and greenview avs here's one man who licked hindenburg von hindenburg appears to have been licked once anyhow rumors around the stock yards yesterday told of a sboyhood fist fight between emil reschke a team ster of 6238 s union av and the german general emil gave von a couple of black eyes and a few missing teeth don't print anything about it pleaded reschke last night it might make trouble for me don't say anything about that fight i got troubles enough now statue of goethe to stay in lincoln park no action on the removal of the statue of goethe was taken at the meeting of the lincoln park board yesterday superintendent j c can non said the board received letters from citizens demanding the statue's removed but that no action would follow without a government de mand teuton blight falls heavily on flanders peasants dumb with grief and despair at homes destruction creep helplessly along roads horrors inflicted by germans on women aged and sick seem to people inferno's orgies with the british army in france april 17 â€” again scenes of desolation mar the beauty of flan ders path of the german hordes is marked by destruction of cultivated j plains on which spring plowing had i just been completed only about a week ago charming highways filled with motors led through batlleul merville and many other peaceful attractive cities and villages replete with ancient and historic buildings to-day all is bleak and despair | homes are destroyed the people in j flight and terror aged and children flee aged and children are fleeing along the highways westward turn ing saddened eyes at the wreckage of their homes they thought protect ed by the great banks of khaki-clad soldiers . smoke risln fro:n the burning vr i lagea and the thousands of slant guns throws darkening shadows on the already ware-worn paths they are treading at night they shrink in terror for the blackened skies show great sheafs of red flame as fires from hundreds of homes leap upwards cr mingle with the-volcanic-like flashes from the guns 1 this situation is incomprehensible 1 to the simple gentle peasant people : they are stunned helpless and in many cases their brains are turned by the frightfulness about them [ despair strikes families homeless helpless poverty i stricken after their lives of com parative plenty these war-stressed people shed no tears make no mur mur against their severe fate they appear simply speechless from de ' spair / â– ; one family dry-eyed but looking as though they regarded themselves ' as condemned to execution was seen huddling beneath a huge british re serve howitzer most of the families merely follow the soldiers they do not know any l other course to pursue to them the j world appears an inferno of mad dened spirits whom they must fol low or be ground down by the hordes of other fighting demons behind them women die at firesides [ many have been killed by their . own fireplaces refusing to be > dragged away even by friendly hands they do not seem to know i friend from foe [ women young and aged sat by t their firesides waiting for husbands or sons to come home and fell vic tims to a fate worse than death from the german marauders r invalids left to fate invalids those bedridden have , been left in their cote awaiting ar rival of the germans their relatives , had no way of saving them at one inn the gray-haired matron passed sadly through the rooms her s inn was doomed and she was taking a last survey of her possessions soon . to be lost among them was an at , most priceless piece of ancient orien tal embroidery she looked at it > then asked for a knife and pleaded . with a bystander to cut it from the , frame saying she would not leave it for the germans but in most cases all valuables aro lost no time exists to pack them if life itself is to be saved philip armour iii at aviation field lake charles la april 17 philip armour 111 is here for avia tion work at gerstner field and is a ground officer friends say he is a success in his new position 11 big british ships are sunk during week r ondon april 17 ship losses took a jump last week ac cording to the admiralty state ment to-night the figures â€¢ u s transport in u-boat fight former german liner laden with american troops attacked in mid-atlantic ak atlantic port april 17 a : german submarine is reported to have been operating within 1,400 miles of the atlantic coast a big united states transport for merly a german liner reached an american port late yesterday after noon on her trip to prance li^av jiy loaded with american troops bound for the trenches she gave bat tle to a german submarine uj-boat sighted at night the submarine was sighted at night and was fired upon by the gunners of convoying destroyers depth bombs were dropped in a wide radius and the submarine dis appeared it is believed she was sunk many of the troops on the trans port were asleep when the subma rine was sighted they were awak ened by the firing several persona who witnessed the attack said they believe the subma rine was sent to the bottom german prisoners aboard thirty-nine german prisoners taken by united states naval forces were on the transport when she re turned yesterday it was reported one naval prisoner was the com mander of the submarine u-39 sunk by the destroyer fanning four of the prisoners were com missioned officers of the german army these were captured by amer icans in the front line trenches the other prisoners were privates the prisoners are to be taken to ellis island and thence to the south ern prison camp at fort oglethorpe georgia the transport had no encounters with the enemy after meeting the submarine the tiger would live 6 months for victory paris april 17 â€” telling his phy sician that he wanted to live just six months longer because in that time the allies will have won a com plete triumph premier clemenceau to-day requested a physical examina tion his doctor told him he would live considerably longer six months will suffice replied the aged pre mier we'll fly flag over berlin says mcadoo el paso april 17 â€” there is not enough room in this great world for the german flag and the ameri can flag we are going to make the american flag fly over berlin before we get through declared secretary william g mcadoo at a mass meet ing here to-day two seriously hurt when car hits auto edward courtney 5010 union st and james evans 4014 cottage grove aw were probably fatally injured early to-day when an automobile col lided with a street car at 35th st and michigan av j t muir 6826 lafay ette av escaped with slight injuries daniel j donagher motorman was seriously but not fatally injured the car bore the license of william j cook 17 x la salle rt 5,000,000 army plan before wilson by h h stansbury baker tells president of dire need of allies for men speeds work of march and crowder military committees ready to rush necessary bills call for 150,000 under draft in may washington april 17 â€” pro vost marshal gen crowder to-day said 150.000 drafted men or nearly three times tl-.-e month's quota will be mobilized during the month of may by june 300,000 men of the sec ond draft of 800,000 wmi be in training camps he said staff correspondent of the interna tional xnri service washington april 17.â€”sec retary of war newton d ba lder just back from france to-day made known to president wilson the urgent need for a greater american % army and a maximum of speed in preparations to meet the growing emergency on the west ern front details were given the president and heads of the war bureaus at the white house during an all-afternoon conference under direction of jlaj gen pey ton c march acting chief of staff and provost marshal general crow der the plans for expansion which must be submitted to congress are taking shape 5,000,000 army under consideration it is estimated the army must bo i immediately increased to 3.000,000 men as soon as the organization machinery can be enlarged the totat will be pushed up to 5,000,000 advisability of requesting congress to authorize and appropriate now for the larger figure is under considera tion the house military affairs com mittee favorably reported the bill providing for drafting all men when they reach the age of twenty-one the military authorities estimate the bill will make available approxi mately 1,000,000 men a year the ma j jorlty of whom will be in class^l must be no limit to effort says baker there must be no limit in our ef fort to send the greatest possible number of men to'j europe in the least possible time is the substance of secretary baker's message tho american soldier has made good in france mr baker told cor respondents the added statement was confined to generalities no official report of the secretary's observations will be given until he has appeared before the house military committee chairman dent of the committee at a conference with mr baker to-mor row will decide upon a date for this hearing the secretary and the members of the committee are anxious to get the legislative machinery moving before the close of the present week if pos sible mr baker also has agreed to dis cuss his trip in liberty loan speeches the first of which is scheduled for saturday night officials who were asked to the white house by president wilson to hear the secretary of war recount his experiences included bernard m ba london a dm its british retreat at ypres gates british london april it â€” the war office statement to-night says this morning intense bombardments were opened by the enemy on practically the whole of the lys battle front and fjrom the forest of nieppe to wytsckaete were fol lowed by infantry attacks all these attacks have been repulsed and considerable losses inflicted on the enemy in counter attacks reported in the morning com munique our troops succeeded in entering the villages of meteren and wytschaete but in the face of continued hostile attacks were unable to maintain their positions there french troops are co-operating with the british on this front the day statement said yesterday evening we delivered a successful counter attack in the neighborhood of wytschaete at meteren also our counter attack restored the sit uation and the village remains in our hands throughout the afternoon and evening yesterday repeated hostile attacks north of bailleul were repulsed with loss to the enemy bodies of german infantry advancing in close forma tion were caught under the fire of our troops at short range and suffered heavy casualties we secured a few pris oners the enemy also endeavored to develop an attack yes terday afternoon east of robecq following the bombard ment already reported but his advance was broken up by our artillery fire in consequence of the progress made by the enemy on the lys front our troops holding our farewell positions east of ypres have been withdrawn to a new line the withdrawal was carried out deliberately without interfer ence by the enemy yesterday afternoon parties of his troops advancing over our old positions were caught by the fire of our outposts and destroyed on the battle front south of arras parties of german infantry who had entered our trenches opposite boyelles were driven out yesterday afternoon with the loss of sev eral prisoners our line in this locality has been com pletely restored the hostile artillery activity increased considerably early this morning on the british front south of the ' somme french paris april 17 â€” the night war office statement says there were no infantry actions during the course of the day the enemy violently bombarded our first lines and several villages in the region north of montdidier our batteries efficaciously counter shelled the enemy artillery and carried out concentrations of fire on the german positions on april 15 and 16 four german airplanes were brought down it is confirmed that two additional enemy machines were destroyed april 12 german berlin april 11 â€” the official statement from headquarters to-day says on the battlefield of last year's flanders battle poel capelle and langemarck have been taken gen sixt von arnim's army occupied passchendaele and advanced its lines near becelacre and gheluvelt north of the lys during the early morning hours troops under gen siger stormed the village of wytschaete and drove the enemy from the heights northeast and west of the village in spite of vigorous counter measures and repulsed a strong counter attack the enemy who was re treating to the southwest of wulverghem was pressed back across the douve brook bailleul and the stubbornly defended point of sup port cappellynde to the north of bailleul and meteren were captured by the use of strong forces the english supported by french vainly endeavored to recapture meteren and lost territory on both sides of merris their attacks broke down with the heaviest losses 11 killed 9 women by long-range gun paris april 17 â€” a shell from the german long-range gun to-day killed nine women and two men a frag ment of the missile fell in the court yard of a factory where they and others were working all were taken to a hospital another shell fell in the middle of a barge in the river cutting it in two th crew dived and escaped belgians defeat germans capture 600 paris april 17 â€” the official re port from belgium to-night reads thi3 morning the germans at tacked in force our system of ad vanced posts between le blanck aert pond and the ypres road and succeeded in securing a foothold in a number of our positions but energetic counter attacks by our troops drove them out about 600 prisoners remain in our hands i germans on 3 sides of ypres nn n n jim d most of passchendaele ridge in teuton hands following three mile gain above ypres take three more towns haig regains wytschaete and met eren then loses them london april 17 â€” french troops have arrived on the wytschaete-meteren front the war office an nounces and are co-operating with the british london april 17 â€” the greater part of passchen v daele ridge the natural bastion to the northeast of ypres is in german hands to night hindenburg here has duplicated the stroke of yester day which gave him a firm foothold on the messines ridge southeast of ypres to-night's berlin statement reports the capture of poelcap elle passchendaele and lange marck to the north of ypres this indicates that the ger mans have advanced their v edge in this sector about three miles germans drawing 15 mile ring about city a fourth battle of ypres is now developing the germans are launching encircling attacks for the british stronghold in flanders along an arc of fifteen miles from poelcapelle to wyts field marshal haig reported to-night that french reinforce ments have reached him and ara now on the battle front it is believed the fall of bailleul several days ago pre vented the french reserves from coming to the aid of the british forces holding the messines passchendaele positions a great anglo-french counter-offensive i is now looked for at any hour aided by the french the brit ish to-day started a great coun ter drive which won back wyts chaete and regained for them a footing in meteren two miles west of bailleul such terrifically fierce ger man attacks developed how ever that marshal haig was forced to retire again yielding the ground he had retaken fresh amiens drive now expected with the battle raging in the j north violent bombardments oc ' curred to-day astride the somme j in picardy the germans are i massing fresh troops there and a a renewal of the drive for i amiens is expected moment tarily jk gen maurice of the bri|h continued on sth page 2d column continued on 2nd page 7th column . st louis Â» 78-568,950 lhtcago 160jj6_,00 ualln 29,399,050 kansas city 43,263,850 xc york 297,449,300 roston . 80,333,950 ri.-â€žrf 85,0-3,000 nn francisco 59,579,800 philadelphia 64,360,350 60 37 36 33 33 32 28 28 25 minneapolis 25,000,000 hicbmond 22,469,100 atlanta 6,611*00 total 052,923,-50 23 17 07 31 over 1.600 week â€” tons first fifty-three 834 fifty-fourth 15 under j.ooo smaller tons craft 300 200 3 1 fifty-fifth 11 fifty-sixth 16 6 2 12 1 fifty-seventh .... 6 fifty-eighth 4 fifty-ninth cur 11 7 5 2 2 4 1 totals 897 334 212 ft final ft 1 edition j t w â€” b i t j rwxather chi^*ji axo victniti (~| ralg and colder thursday fri day partly cloudy amd cooveri fresh to stronc northerly winds '* ' tempehatrre ' â€” ' highest 7t lowest 46s meaa 4 l

Chicago examiner thursday thursday Chicago april 18 1918 i vol xvi no 101 a m râ‚¬kistered tjtjtntti rnii-^v nrvrro ix Chicago ei^sbwhbrh l u stpatrat offioe jrkice two ctiatb and suburbs three cents big cities lag loan menaced says u s sales of 952,923,250 should i be billion average in nation | is 31 per cent speed urged | chicago's standing slightly over third of quota treasury ad rnitsdisappointmentin showing washington april 17 â€” for the first time since the open ing of the third liberty loan campaign disappointment in the prog ress made was manifested to-night at the treasury department unless this average is maintained tfie loan ivill be short 160,000,000 of ho j3,m>0,000,000 asked for bt sec retary mcadoo it was stated here to-nlghi by treasury officials this statement was authorized by uie treasury department sales since the first days of the campaign when they started with a rush frankly are not up to ex pectations there is a feeling of lisappointment particularly in the mrge cities the dountry districts are doing better than during the previous campaigns but the gains that they ne making are not of sufficient size to offset the lack of sales in hc larger communities ourly effort all over nation needed the need for constant steady driving by sales committees ev â€¢!â– >â– day throughout the remainder of the campaign is plain only persistent daily and hourly effort will restore the campaign to the rate of speed which it had acquired a week ago possibly under the im petus of the start of the honor flag race list by districts shows Chicago second district subscriptions and the per centages of quotas obtained by each are wisconsin under way to beat record wisconsin is just beginning its in tensive campaign throughout t!i state where per capita subscriptions ave been running somewhat smaller than the second loan reports from all over the country now buyers are taking the bonds in small quantities and with the inten sion of holding them st louis still leads the nation in the race for percentage of subscrip tions obtained but minneapolis with only two working days to its credit is coming strong cardinal gibbons to-day indorsed the liberty loan campaign as follows i beg to say that i am deeply interested in the placing of the â€¢ oming issue of th liberty loan and the best evidence of my zeal for its great success is the fact that i purpose subscribing largely o it for the catholic university president james university of illi nois telegraphed that the faculty students ani employes of his school ad already passed the quota as signed to it the cleveland federal reserve ais cyclops safe commander's wife asserts norfoi>k va april 17 that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the naval collier cyclops would be cleared up within the next twenty-four hours was the statement made in a newspaper office here to-night by mrs g w worley wife of lieut commander worley in command of the vessel the collier is safe in a south american port she is reported to have said adding an official statement would be made shortly bearing her out families of men aboard the cy clops have been told not to worry by mrs worley it is said washington april 17 mrs worley's reported norfolk state ments have not been borne out by any dispatches received at the navy department officials here said to-night utpatel speech arouses u s master-ln-chancery's address to lutheran patriotic league to be investigated henry tttpatel master in chancery of the superior court and former alderman will be summoned to the office of chief investigator hinton o clabaugh of the department of justice this morning secret service agent3 stated last night utpatel alluding to the war while speaking at a patriotic rally of the cook county branch of the american lutheran patriotic league in the council of defense building 120 w adams st is alleged to have said that for a while it seemed that the united states had bitten off more than it could chew the remark capped an otherwise patriotic talk by utpatel aided red cross mr utpatel was not on the pro gram stated w e brockschmidt chairman he sent a note up to me asking permission to address the meeting he has been an ardent worker in the red cross and liberty loan cam paigns conducted by the league and : his remark was entirely unexpected one of the objects of this league is to set people on the right path utpatel had left the meeting when secret service operatives arrived to serve the subpoena the meeting with an attendance of 300 voiced the unmistakable loy alty of the league buy 520.000 in bonds a letter expressing the regret of governor lowden at alleged reflec tions cast by harry lauder on the german lutherans was read more than 700 persons attended a patriotic meeting at the evangelical lutheran st luke's church belmont and greenview avs here's one man who licked hindenburg von hindenburg appears to have been licked once anyhow rumors around the stock yards yesterday told of a sboyhood fist fight between emil reschke a team ster of 6238 s union av and the german general emil gave von a couple of black eyes and a few missing teeth don't print anything about it pleaded reschke last night it might make trouble for me don't say anything about that fight i got troubles enough now statue of goethe to stay in lincoln park no action on the removal of the statue of goethe was taken at the meeting of the lincoln park board yesterday superintendent j c can non said the board received letters from citizens demanding the statue's removed but that no action would follow without a government de mand teuton blight falls heavily on flanders peasants dumb with grief and despair at homes destruction creep helplessly along roads horrors inflicted by germans on women aged and sick seem to people inferno's orgies with the british army in france april 17 â€” again scenes of desolation mar the beauty of flan ders path of the german hordes is marked by destruction of cultivated j plains on which spring plowing had i just been completed only about a week ago charming highways filled with motors led through batlleul merville and many other peaceful attractive cities and villages replete with ancient and historic buildings to-day all is bleak and despair | homes are destroyed the people in j flight and terror aged and children flee aged and children are fleeing along the highways westward turn ing saddened eyes at the wreckage of their homes they thought protect ed by the great banks of khaki-clad soldiers . smoke risln fro:n the burning vr i lagea and the thousands of slant guns throws darkening shadows on the already ware-worn paths they are treading at night they shrink in terror for the blackened skies show great sheafs of red flame as fires from hundreds of homes leap upwards cr mingle with the-volcanic-like flashes from the guns 1 this situation is incomprehensible 1 to the simple gentle peasant people : they are stunned helpless and in many cases their brains are turned by the frightfulness about them [ despair strikes families homeless helpless poverty i stricken after their lives of com parative plenty these war-stressed people shed no tears make no mur mur against their severe fate they appear simply speechless from de ' spair / â– ; one family dry-eyed but looking as though they regarded themselves ' as condemned to execution was seen huddling beneath a huge british re serve howitzer most of the families merely follow the soldiers they do not know any l other course to pursue to them the j world appears an inferno of mad dened spirits whom they must fol low or be ground down by the hordes of other fighting demons behind them women die at firesides [ many have been killed by their . own fireplaces refusing to be > dragged away even by friendly hands they do not seem to know i friend from foe [ women young and aged sat by t their firesides waiting for husbands or sons to come home and fell vic tims to a fate worse than death from the german marauders r invalids left to fate invalids those bedridden have , been left in their cote awaiting ar rival of the germans their relatives , had no way of saving them at one inn the gray-haired matron passed sadly through the rooms her s inn was doomed and she was taking a last survey of her possessions soon . to be lost among them was an at , most priceless piece of ancient orien tal embroidery she looked at it > then asked for a knife and pleaded . with a bystander to cut it from the , frame saying she would not leave it for the germans but in most cases all valuables aro lost no time exists to pack them if life itself is to be saved philip armour iii at aviation field lake charles la april 17 philip armour 111 is here for avia tion work at gerstner field and is a ground officer friends say he is a success in his new position 11 big british ships are sunk during week r ondon april 17 ship losses took a jump last week ac cording to the admiralty state ment to-night the figures â€¢ u s transport in u-boat fight former german liner laden with american troops attacked in mid-atlantic ak atlantic port april 17 a : german submarine is reported to have been operating within 1,400 miles of the atlantic coast a big united states transport for merly a german liner reached an american port late yesterday after noon on her trip to prance li^av jiy loaded with american troops bound for the trenches she gave bat tle to a german submarine uj-boat sighted at night the submarine was sighted at night and was fired upon by the gunners of convoying destroyers depth bombs were dropped in a wide radius and the submarine dis appeared it is believed she was sunk many of the troops on the trans port were asleep when the subma rine was sighted they were awak ened by the firing several persona who witnessed the attack said they believe the subma rine was sent to the bottom german prisoners aboard thirty-nine german prisoners taken by united states naval forces were on the transport when she re turned yesterday it was reported one naval prisoner was the com mander of the submarine u-39 sunk by the destroyer fanning four of the prisoners were com missioned officers of the german army these were captured by amer icans in the front line trenches the other prisoners were privates the prisoners are to be taken to ellis island and thence to the south ern prison camp at fort oglethorpe georgia the transport had no encounters with the enemy after meeting the submarine the tiger would live 6 months for victory paris april 17 â€” telling his phy sician that he wanted to live just six months longer because in that time the allies will have won a com plete triumph premier clemenceau to-day requested a physical examina tion his doctor told him he would live considerably longer six months will suffice replied the aged pre mier we'll fly flag over berlin says mcadoo el paso april 17 â€” there is not enough room in this great world for the german flag and the ameri can flag we are going to make the american flag fly over berlin before we get through declared secretary william g mcadoo at a mass meet ing here to-day two seriously hurt when car hits auto edward courtney 5010 union st and james evans 4014 cottage grove aw were probably fatally injured early to-day when an automobile col lided with a street car at 35th st and michigan av j t muir 6826 lafay ette av escaped with slight injuries daniel j donagher motorman was seriously but not fatally injured the car bore the license of william j cook 17 x la salle rt 5,000,000 army plan before wilson by h h stansbury baker tells president of dire need of allies for men speeds work of march and crowder military committees ready to rush necessary bills call for 150,000 under draft in may washington april 17 â€” pro vost marshal gen crowder to-day said 150.000 drafted men or nearly three times tl-.-e month's quota will be mobilized during the month of may by june 300,000 men of the sec ond draft of 800,000 wmi be in training camps he said staff correspondent of the interna tional xnri service washington april 17.â€”sec retary of war newton d ba lder just back from france to-day made known to president wilson the urgent need for a greater american % army and a maximum of speed in preparations to meet the growing emergency on the west ern front details were given the president and heads of the war bureaus at the white house during an all-afternoon conference under direction of jlaj gen pey ton c march acting chief of staff and provost marshal general crow der the plans for expansion which must be submitted to congress are taking shape 5,000,000 army under consideration it is estimated the army must bo i immediately increased to 3.000,000 men as soon as the organization machinery can be enlarged the totat will be pushed up to 5,000,000 advisability of requesting congress to authorize and appropriate now for the larger figure is under considera tion the house military affairs com mittee favorably reported the bill providing for drafting all men when they reach the age of twenty-one the military authorities estimate the bill will make available approxi mately 1,000,000 men a year the ma j jorlty of whom will be in class^l must be no limit to effort says baker there must be no limit in our ef fort to send the greatest possible number of men to'j europe in the least possible time is the substance of secretary baker's message tho american soldier has made good in france mr baker told cor respondents the added statement was confined to generalities no official report of the secretary's observations will be given until he has appeared before the house military committee chairman dent of the committee at a conference with mr baker to-mor row will decide upon a date for this hearing the secretary and the members of the committee are anxious to get the legislative machinery moving before the close of the present week if pos sible mr baker also has agreed to dis cuss his trip in liberty loan speeches the first of which is scheduled for saturday night officials who were asked to the white house by president wilson to hear the secretary of war recount his experiences included bernard m ba london a dm its british retreat at ypres gates british london april it â€” the war office statement to-night says this morning intense bombardments were opened by the enemy on practically the whole of the lys battle front and fjrom the forest of nieppe to wytsckaete were fol lowed by infantry attacks all these attacks have been repulsed and considerable losses inflicted on the enemy in counter attacks reported in the morning com munique our troops succeeded in entering the villages of meteren and wytschaete but in the face of continued hostile attacks were unable to maintain their positions there french troops are co-operating with the british on this front the day statement said yesterday evening we delivered a successful counter attack in the neighborhood of wytschaete at meteren also our counter attack restored the sit uation and the village remains in our hands throughout the afternoon and evening yesterday repeated hostile attacks north of bailleul were repulsed with loss to the enemy bodies of german infantry advancing in close forma tion were caught under the fire of our troops at short range and suffered heavy casualties we secured a few pris oners the enemy also endeavored to develop an attack yes terday afternoon east of robecq following the bombard ment already reported but his advance was broken up by our artillery fire in consequence of the progress made by the enemy on the lys front our troops holding our farewell positions east of ypres have been withdrawn to a new line the withdrawal was carried out deliberately without interfer ence by the enemy yesterday afternoon parties of his troops advancing over our old positions were caught by the fire of our outposts and destroyed on the battle front south of arras parties of german infantry who had entered our trenches opposite boyelles were driven out yesterday afternoon with the loss of sev eral prisoners our line in this locality has been com pletely restored the hostile artillery activity increased considerably early this morning on the british front south of the ' somme french paris april 17 â€” the night war office statement says there were no infantry actions during the course of the day the enemy violently bombarded our first lines and several villages in the region north of montdidier our batteries efficaciously counter shelled the enemy artillery and carried out concentrations of fire on the german positions on april 15 and 16 four german airplanes were brought down it is confirmed that two additional enemy machines were destroyed april 12 german berlin april 11 â€” the official statement from headquarters to-day says on the battlefield of last year's flanders battle poel capelle and langemarck have been taken gen sixt von arnim's army occupied passchendaele and advanced its lines near becelacre and gheluvelt north of the lys during the early morning hours troops under gen siger stormed the village of wytschaete and drove the enemy from the heights northeast and west of the village in spite of vigorous counter measures and repulsed a strong counter attack the enemy who was re treating to the southwest of wulverghem was pressed back across the douve brook bailleul and the stubbornly defended point of sup port cappellynde to the north of bailleul and meteren were captured by the use of strong forces the english supported by french vainly endeavored to recapture meteren and lost territory on both sides of merris their attacks broke down with the heaviest losses 11 killed 9 women by long-range gun paris april 17 â€” a shell from the german long-range gun to-day killed nine women and two men a frag ment of the missile fell in the court yard of a factory where they and others were working all were taken to a hospital another shell fell in the middle of a barge in the river cutting it in two th crew dived and escaped belgians defeat germans capture 600 paris april 17 â€” the official re port from belgium to-night reads thi3 morning the germans at tacked in force our system of ad vanced posts between le blanck aert pond and the ypres road and succeeded in securing a foothold in a number of our positions but energetic counter attacks by our troops drove them out about 600 prisoners remain in our hands i germans on 3 sides of ypres nn n n jim d most of passchendaele ridge in teuton hands following three mile gain above ypres take three more towns haig regains wytschaete and met eren then loses them london april 17 â€” french troops have arrived on the wytschaete-meteren front the war office an nounces and are co-operating with the british london april 17 â€” the greater part of passchen v daele ridge the natural bastion to the northeast of ypres is in german hands to night hindenburg here has duplicated the stroke of yester day which gave him a firm foothold on the messines ridge southeast of ypres to-night's berlin statement reports the capture of poelcap elle passchendaele and lange marck to the north of ypres this indicates that the ger mans have advanced their v edge in this sector about three miles germans drawing 15 mile ring about city a fourth battle of ypres is now developing the germans are launching encircling attacks for the british stronghold in flanders along an arc of fifteen miles from poelcapelle to wyts field marshal haig reported to-night that french reinforce ments have reached him and ara now on the battle front it is believed the fall of bailleul several days ago pre vented the french reserves from coming to the aid of the british forces holding the messines passchendaele positions a great anglo-french counter-offensive i is now looked for at any hour aided by the french the brit ish to-day started a great coun ter drive which won back wyts chaete and regained for them a footing in meteren two miles west of bailleul such terrifically fierce ger man attacks developed how ever that marshal haig was forced to retire again yielding the ground he had retaken fresh amiens drive now expected with the battle raging in the j north violent bombardments oc ' curred to-day astride the somme j in picardy the germans are i massing fresh troops there and a a renewal of the drive for i amiens is expected moment tarily jk gen maurice of the bri|h continued on sth page 2d column continued on 2nd page 7th column . st louis Â» 78-568,950 lhtcago 160jj6_,00 ualln 29,399,050 kansas city 43,263,850 xc york 297,449,300 roston . 80,333,950 ri.-â€žrf 85,0-3,000 nn francisco 59,579,800 philadelphia 64,360,350 60 37 36 33 33 32 28 28 25 minneapolis 25,000,000 hicbmond 22,469,100 atlanta 6,611*00 total 052,923,-50 23 17 07 31 over 1.600 week â€” tons first fifty-three 834 fifty-fourth 15 under j.ooo smaller tons craft 300 200 3 1 fifty-fifth 11 fifty-sixth 16 6 2 12 1 fifty-seventh .... 6 fifty-eighth 4 fifty-ninth cur 11 7 5 2 2 4 1 totals 897 334 212 ft final ft 1 edition j t w â€” b i t j rwxather chi^*ji axo victniti (~| ralg and colder thursday fri day partly cloudy amd cooveri fresh to stronc northerly winds '* ' tempehatrre ' â€” ' highest 7t lowest 46s meaa 4 l